Harsimran Kaur, Cody N. Heiser, Eliot T. McKinley, Lissa Ventura-Antunes, Coleman R. Harris, Joseph T. Roland, Melissa A. Farrow, Hilary J. Selden, Ellie L. Pingry, John F. Moore, Lauren I. R. Ehrlich, Martha J. Shrubsole, Jeffrey M. Spraggins, Robert J. Coffey, Ken S. Lau, Simon N. Vandekar
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Abstract
Spatially resolved molecular assays provide high dimensional genetic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and epigenetic information in situ and at various resolutions. Pairing these data across modalities with histological features enables powerful studies of tissue pathology in the context of an intact microenvironment and tissue structure. Increasing dimensions across molecular analytes and samples require new data science approaches to functionally annotate spatially resolved molecular data. A specific challenge is data-driven cross-sample domain detection that allows for analysis within and between consensus tissue compartments across high volumes of multiplex datasets stemming from tissue atlasing efforts. Here, we present MILWRM (multiplex image labeling with regional morphology)—a Python package for rapid, multi-scale tissue domain detection and annotation at the image- or spot-level. We demonstrate MILWRM’s utility in identifying histologically distinct compartments in human colonic polyps, lymph nodes, mouse kidney, and mouse brain slices through spatially-informed clustering in two different spatial data modalities from different platforms. We used tissue domains detected in human colonic polyps to elucidate the molecular distinction between polyp subtypes, and explored the ability of MILWRM to identify anatomical regions of the brain tissue and their respective distinct molecular profiles. MILWRM is a Python package that can perform tissue domain detection on spatial transcriptomics (ST) and multiplex immunofluorescence (mIF) data across multiple specimens.
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Communications Biology is an open access journal from Nature Research publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the biological sciences. Research papers published by the journal represent significant advances bringing new biological insight to a specialized area of research.